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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (Courtesy of Poly Doc Ltd.)
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
SXSW screening: Tuesday, March 16, 10-11:36am
SXSW panel: Tuesday, March 16, 8:30-9pm
X-Ray Spex singer and punk maverick Poly Styrene (born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) intended to publish a book of diary entries in her final years. Following her death from cancer in 2011, daughter Celeste Bell inherited management of her mother s pioneering legacy, leading to the 2019 coffeetable read
Dayglo!: The Poly Styrene Story. The artwork, writings, and family ties now coalesce in
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, debuting stateside at South by Southwest.
If you spoke his name above a whisper/ He d
just disappear into the hot Texas night, Crockett laments on the introductory track to his first of two planned albums in 2021, a tribute to the late Texas country icon. While Crockett previously played bluesman, honky-tonk caller, and folk singer-songwriter, 2020 s
Welcome to Hard Times asserted him as a shapeshifter – always bending to the sounds of human experience.
On
10 for Slim, that versatility enlightens his grief.
Crockett waltzes through compositions by the real deal, as Willie Nelson described Hand, not only with the confidence of an artist who released nine albums in the last six years, but with the intimacy of their friendship seeping through his rounded syllables. The San Benito native abandons his once biting, lisped voice for a smoother, South Texas-meets-New Orleans drawl. It s still no quivering Slim croak, but the Austinite s unique vocals color the pared-down, selective instrumentation.
To, in fact,
Now Dig This, you just might need to pop into Antone s Records to purchase the 180-gram vinyl. Platform? Yes, it s the store s front display bin.
In the olden days, a sort of chitlins (and grits) circuit of record stores carried releases by mom-and-pop labels such as Austin s Dialtone, documenting artists rooted deep in regional scenes where authenticity proved no more difficult than plugging in and playing. Louisianan out of Mansfield, Crystal Thomas grooves a modern day Southern soul circuit between Dallas and Shreveport, but she tells me her real love is playing the blues, reveals the imprint s patriarch Eddie Stout.
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